The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-12-08
CURRENT EVENTS.

A factory-o In Brooklyn claims TO have
sold six million pounds OF llcorice last year u
y tobacco firm.
Peanut raising has been commenced on thu
James river lowlands near Scottsville, Va, BY
an cnterprlsng firm.
A large number Of petrifed trees have re
Gently been discovered on the line OF thu
RIdesu canal In Canada.
Mrs. Daniel Abbott died at Surry, N. H.,
Friday aged 90 years. Two brothers and ont
sister who survive her are each over 20 year.
old.
During the past three years nearly eighteer
millions OF rabbits we're killed In Australia
On tthese the government paid bounty Of
$4,000
There are few cranks In Newark, N j..
who will make an effort to have the Sunday
blue laws endorsed by the voters at the mex
election.
All the turnpikes in the state Of Con
necuticut but one have been purchased by the
authorities and converted into free public
highways.
In the rural districts of France bread 10
baked once each month. The kneading IL
in large ovens,
II is estimated that during the cranberry
season 100000 will be paid out to pickers II
southern Plymouth and Barnstable counties
Massachusetts.
farmer on Staten Island, n. j., has a COW
that has given an average amount of milk dur.
Ing this season, though she dropped her last
calf five years ago.
When John Yocum, of Valley Bend, w. Va,
died the other day there we're gathered at his
bedside his six children, all gray-haired, and
in one or two cases feeble. The old man wal
JOG years old, and retained his faculties to the
last. He had not been Ill for seventy-fv
years.
A physician who has been investigating the
typhoid fever prevalent in Brunswick, Me-,
says that the disease is due TO overcrowding In
the French district and the lack Of cleanliness
of the people. The water supply OF the infect
ed district is pronounced poor and the sewer
age system inadequate. There are about
twenty cases of the fever in Brunswick.
new variety of barley was a few years ago
introduced into Minnesota and Dakota from
British. America, which is said to be the most
SInuI gram hnOMu III uuy paib VI
the world. A yield Of thirty four bushels
from bushel of seed is reported The color
of the grain is bleck. II the reports Of Its
productiveness are true it will be likely Ia
supercede corn as a food for hogs and oats as
food for horses.
In some parts Of Australia the Scotch this
tie, which has been hitherto regarded as
great nuisance, is being used for ensilage.
0.e farmer, Who had two acres Of land com
pctely overrun with thistles had them cut
down and stacked in green state, with earth
on top TO serve as a weight The result was
a quantity of sllage which cattle consumed
with avidty. In Gippsland, where thistles
flourish in uncommon luxurlance, the dairy
farmers are advised to enslle them for their
cows.
The corn canning companies Of Maine are
closing their seasons business. The factory
at Pennington Falls canned over 200, 900 cansi
that at South Noridgewock, 100000 cans
Canton, 80, 900; Bethel, $50, 900; Hiram, 267-
BOO; st. Adams $50, 900; Camden, SO, $685.
Unity 343, 255;. This large industry affords
profitable market for immense quantities OF
corn, paying the farmers, according to one re.
port, Sl4 to SIS per acre. In addition II gives
employment to many people In and about Ito
factories.
The famous floating island of the Derwenter,
England, has come to the surface again after
Il long disappearance. This is A mass Of de
caying vegetation forming layer of peat, on
top Of which is thin covering OF clay bound
together by the roots OF Vegetation. 1t rests
ON the clay bottom Of the lake, but sometime,
some force, supposed to be in the gases gener'
atcd by the decaying matter, causes 1t to rise
10 the surface. Its extent sometimes reaches
half an acre, and u rises and falls with the
water until II sinks out OF sight again, TO be
gone probably for several years.
The owners OF Irvine factory at Boston re-
Gently imported five girls from Belfast and
furnished them with work. A controversy
was raised as to whether their case came
under the contract labor law, but 1t was soon
dropped and the girls were allowed to remain
Recently they were discharged because their
work was not satisfactory, and they sued the
firm for breach OF contract Being unable to
furnish proof Of contract the poor girls were
decided against by the judge last Tuesday. II
proof OF contract had been furnished 1t is pro
bable that the girls would have been COM
PEELED to return TO their native country.
Miner Ed Scheffelln, who recently sold the
Toughnut mine Of Arizona for million dollars,
went to Carson the other day and put up at
the best hotel there. When dinner was an
nouncod he saun,ered into the dining. room
with his long hair training down over his
shoulders, which we're not covered by coat
The head waiter told the millionaire that he
must put on his coat II guess you don't
know who am, you black rascal" said Mr.
Scheffelin. Don't make no difference, sah,"
said the waiter; "you must put on yo' coat"
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